Some questions stir without being asked,
We sometimes wonder about lifting the mask.
If birds could talk, wouldn’t that be a miracle,
To both listen and hear, thus reaching a pinnacle.
The poems in this third collection further explore the world of nature and the people who live and thrive within that world of nature, partly because we humans have the capacity to listen and hear what the signs of nature can teach us, and partly because of its sheer beauty.
If the artefacts of nature such as the sun, moon and stars speak to us directly, we are obliged to listen carefully to hear what they have to say, at the risk of seeming stone deaf if we ignore their messages. When birds speak, we have a duty to listen.
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Poetry of Another Kind
"Rare and unique insights in poetic form from a poet who finds new ways to express age-old ideas." --An Internet Reviewer
If Poems Were Stars
"If poems were stars, these would shine down across the firmament with bright light." v --An Internet Reviewer
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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Enter the pages of diaspora in quiet introspection. Bathe your thoughts with subtle humor; synchronize your spirit-sense with history-in-heat; fall headlong with eyes wide open into
